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Changing Windows 2000 server password

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by skenny 1 view

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I am going to be changing the passwords on 2 Windows 2000 servers. I would like to know if anyone has encountered problems or unexpected results from this. One server is running Terminal services and the other Proxy 2.0.
Thanks for any help or tips you can give.

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by raffi_

Changing passwords on your servers should be the norm - not the exception. There are no side effects (unless you forget what the password is).

Some installations change it every week but it really depends on your security levels and level of confort.

Regards
Raffi_

by mdmonte

Skenny,

I am assuming you are either talking about an administrative account (like the generic "Administrator") or a service account (the god-account for your domain). If your environment only consists of these two servers then there isn't reallyanything to be concerned about.
If you have automated scripts that forward authentication details then make sure to follow-up and change them as well.
From a security point of view regularly changing service and system passwords is a good habit to develop. I try to offest the service account by a week from all other admin accounts. (It's nice to have a saftey net).

Hope that this helps,

Mike D.

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